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Evgeniya Rodina

Evgeniya Sergeyevna Rodina (Евгения Сергеевна Родина; born 4 February 1989) is an inactive Russian tennis player. On 6 May 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 67.

Rodina has won 13 singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit along with one singles and one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments.

Rodina is married to her coach Denis Shteyngart. They have a daughter, born in November 2012.

Rodina began her career on the ITF Circuit with the assistance of a wildcard into the first round of the main draw of a $25k tournament at Moscow in late August 2004, when she was fifteen and a half years old, and took a set from up-and-coming fellow Russian Elena Vesnina, though she lost the match in three.

Further wildcards into two successive $10k events at Dubrovnik, Croatia that October gave her the opportunity to win her first and second main-draw ITF matches without qualifying. She lost in the second round on both occasions. But these two results were sufficient to put her onto the tail end of the rankings board at world No. 1138, by the end of the year.

After taking a six-month break from competition, she was granted a further wildcard directly into the main draw of a $10k event at Cavtat, Croatia in late April 2005, after her 16th birthday, and this time won two rounds before losing in the quarterfinals. At the end of that same week, she at last entered a $10k qualifying draw on the merit of her ranking alone, and qualified and then won four rounds of the main draw without dropping a set, only to lose in the final to a little-known player called Vanja Ćorović of Serbia and Montenegro. Her next breakthrough followed in mid-August, as she came through qualifying into a $25k draw for the first time at Moscow, and defeated Oxana Lyubtsova in the main draw on the way to a quarterfinal defeat by fellow Russian Vasilisa Bardina.

The following week, she was wildcarded directly into a $25k draw at Balashikha, also in Russia, and bettered her career-best result set the previous week by battling through to the semifinals, after knocking out Israeli player Yevgenia Savransky in the quarterfinals, before she was once again defeated by Bardina in straight sets.

On her next attempt to qualify for a $25 tournament, at Tbilisi, Georgia in September, she lost in the qualifying round to Kristina Antoniychuk in straight sets, but was allowed into the main draw as a lucky loser, only to face Bardina for a third time in the first round. Despite winning a set from her fellow Russian for the first time, she lost the match in three.

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